While Price-to-Earnings is the first ratio to cross one’s mind when using valuation metrics, Price-to-Sales helps to determine the value of stocks that are suffering losses or are in the early cycle of development, generating meager or no profits.

Stock volatility using proprietary measures has hit a collapsing low level. While stocks with GRA's profile see a short-term quiet period, this is also one of those times when a shake out volatility move could be on the horizon. To that point, we do …

IShares Core S&P Mid-Cap seeks to match the holdings and returns of the S&P MidCap 400, which gives it a broadly diversified portfolio of mid-cap stocks across industries and the value-growth spectrum. This index effectively diversifies …